| Now let us go and sell the mantle, the gold alone is well worth a moidore. |
| The moidore was worth six pieces of eight, the pistole four, the johannes eight. |
| Taking all those stats into account, we have a shortlist of Suegioo, De Rigueur, Quick Jack, Ted Spread, Big Easy, Moidore, Waterclock and Jonny Delta. |
| On one occasion General Stone, the authority for the previous anecdote, crossed the ferry and offered a moidore in payment. |
| The moidore and the johannes were Portuguese coins, the pistole Spanish. |
| Under the universal name of moidore it became the most commonly traded coin in the New World and was internationally the principal gold coin of the 18th century. |
